I like your marketing gimmick. Keep calling it different and eventually people will believe you. Don't worry though your secret is safe with me, I won't tell anyone that you copied the formula of all other shit dubstep songs and contributed exactly 0 originality to the genre.

Fair enough. It's an interesting concept to allow medical insurance to cover an addicts drugs. I completely disagree w it as an economic policy because it would really distort rates and policies for everyone else, moral hazard and all that. Unless you mean the "drugs on a list" are subsidized by the government in addition to insurance, in which case I absolutely wouldn't do that, because while its charming as far as harm reduction the economics and business behind it is kind of silly

And any addicts habit behaves close to that of a liquid, it will just expand and expand until it takes up the entirity of expendable income. So I actually think theft to buy drugs/heroin would increase. Look at Vancouver; they have a hands off policy (may as well be decriminalize and the availability is close to legal) and they have insane levels of crime in addicted neighborhoods. That said I think it would be useful to have only a specioc neighborhood to buy drugs, so everyone has to see the sad, depressing lives of true and devoted heroin addicts

I don't agree w your claim that the spike in drugs argument is "bullshit". I agree w you that it wouldn't be so glamorous after 50-60 years into the process, but millions of new people would get addicted. Have you ever been addicted to heroin or opiates? I have, and while I'm clean now I guarantee you I would immediately go buy that pharmaceutical grade dope after the first hint of a bad day

for what it's worth i've had a very similar thought to him many many recurring times throughout my life, mostly after high dose psychedelics.

imagine you are a appointed as a grand ruler of an entire country, or even the entire planet. some kind of benevolent fascist appointed to make the world a better place for the next 1000 years. would you legalize all drugs in the name of harm reduction?

obviously this is all conjecture, so please spare the "this whole thing is useless because no one knows!" replies. it's fun to think about the future.

anyway, i think such a decision it would induce a lot of people to try the so called 'hard' drugs, or those which are not psychedelic or dissociative or in general consciousness expanding. If more people try heroin, meth, crack, cocaine, and benzos, surely it would lead to a smaller but directly proportional population being addicted to said hard drugs. so as the 'benevolent' dictator you've now hugely expanded a sector of society that we know already exists - an entire class of society addicted to drugs to function throughout the day.

After 50 years or so the world would level out and reach an equilibrium of drug use - education would increase, prisons would decline, black markets would disappear overnight.

So, what would the formerly marginalized sections of society do with their new free time? Get a 'real' job? Switch to other forms of criminality, like violent crime or theft? I'd like to think that for the first 50 years or so violent crime might actually increase, as the felons and other people forced into black markets would not be able to support themselves competing against regulated private sector companies. However, again after 50 years there wouldn't be the same pressure/motivation/reason to skip an education and jump into the black market at age 15, so education levels amongst the poor would increase.

On the other hand, it would truly be a brave new world where everything is privately commoditized. we might see an explosion of use of cheap heroin and crack use amongst the very poor. easy to deal with a bad hand in life when you're high as shit on heroin. suburban high school kids would probably be hit the hardest. honestly, we would probably see an absolutely massive population of high schools addicted to heroin - i would guess 20%. Then again, time would bring that number down, but is it worth it.

Interesting little thought experiment though. Basically, in my opinion the trade off is helping people long run (and addicts/users in the short run) through 'harm reduction', and then harming huge portions of the population in the medium run (more addicts, easier access, millions out of a job, close the wage gap between low and middle class).

legalizing just psychedelics wouldn't really cause or help any of those problems from above i don't think. worst side effect is that i would be scared to get on the road, because i don't trust every person to only trip responsibly when there's easy access, but the equilibrium of usage would surely be reached very quickly. on the other hand i could buy real acid at the store. hmmm

Btw, it is a lie to pretend there is no difference between a consciousness expanding vs contracting drug, aka the difference between weed and alcohol, lsd and heroin, etc.

just never ever drive if you're tripping and add ketamine or dissociatives. you can easily get sucked into a thought or visual and then come back like 15 seconds later without even realizing what happened, which could be deadly in a car

annoying for two-three days...i got depersonalization/dissociative identity disorder. corners of doorways would shift in size frequently, and everything just looked a little off. it was like being in a dream-like state all the time, kind of. Like, being in a different 'dimension' of reality... it's just something hard to explain because it goes beyond just visual disturbances.

it's kind of like being on a mild dose of ketamine for many hours at a time, without any of the fun parts

There is a simple method that will allow you guys to be friends with girls and still bang them later. in fact, the op's image is pretty insightful; you just have to 'act' like you are the one friendzoning her, if you will, to make her want you.

And, you know, being sexually attractive is also a huge part of it too.

wtf is wrong with you people? one hit of lsd would only make this show better. Seriously, do not listen to these people. It's not like the show is the only aspect of the trip either - lsd lasts a pretty long time so you should time it so that you come up before with first peak right before/during the pregame with friends and then leave the show all spun out and come down chilling with friends after. it's honestly the perfect time to do it.

don't listen to these people, seriously, lsd can be a party drug and you will have a blast. personally i always prefer lsd to mdma, at any concert, because it's just a deeper experience